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I was at work by 7:40 a.m. today, which may not seem early to some people, but when you bear in mind that, to get to work, I have a 25 minute train ride followed by 15 minutes of tram/walking before I’m actually in the office I’m sure you can imagine what time I had to get up. To cut a long story short (too late?), I am tired and therefore incapable of typing up a proper blog post. So instead, here are some random things I discovered on the Internet.
First up is this tool that claims to be able to analyse your writing style and tell you which famous author it’s similar to. I was intrigued, so I decided to give it a go.
First, I analysed my post on Mainz and was told I write like Douglas Adams (of Hitchehiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fame – ooooh!). Fair enough. I then wondered whether that one is really representative of my writing style? A post about visiting a place is slightly different to my usual rambling posts about every day life (if only because all the photos in between mean short paragraphs), so I tried analysing a few other blog posts (including one from 2010) and got this three times:
My reaction: Who??
So I looked him up on Wikipedia and was told “Cory Efram Doctorow (/ˈkɒri ˈdɒktəroʊ/; born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the weblog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licenses for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics.”
Boing Boing? Post-scarcity economics? I’m not 100% certain this result is a compliment…
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Another Internet find today was this list of nine strange things that people have found while searching for Wally (or Waldo). Everything from lions queuing up to use a urinal to someone being sacrificed by the Aztecs (and this in a kids’ book!). It makes me want to get hold of a copy of a Where’s Wally book and see what other weird pictures I can find lurking on its pages…
Oh Jake got one for Christmas will have a look
got to try the other thing too 
David foster Wallace?! Who?
LOL, I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s never heard of my author!
My kids school are having a where’s wally day soon, I hope there will be Aztec sacrificing going on!
Let’s hope the books haven’t given them any ideas
Love that writing analysis website! I am reading a Cory Doctorow book right now – I came across him recently because of a manifesto he wrote about sharing creative work on the internet. The book I’m reading is, appropriately, available for free
And I LOVE that Waldo article – have read it before, and it really shocks the childhood right out of you. You have to figure the artists needed to have a little fun and put some “grown-up” jokes in there.